Reply To: Hobby Weekender 20/07/18 Is this the real life

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Hrm.. I suspect dark sorcery is afoot here…

Tried this stuff last night. It looks like, feels like and kind of smells like normal hair gel, which I quietly suspect it isn’t.

 

 

Began with a brush that had lost it’s point (stupid pointless brushes…)

 

After a quick application of the brush gel:

 

 

Apologies I was struggling to get the bristles in focus but you can see the difference. I was really quite impressed. So at the risk of sounding like a TV infomercial salesman I decided to give it a go on the worst brush I could find.

 

This brush is about 20 years old, is now used for applying PVA to miniature bases and had just spent 2 weeks left standing in a jar of dirty paint water. It’s pretty much as bad as you can get. I gave it a quick soak in some hot water, tried the brush gel and set the bristles by twisting them around in a torsional movement (I wasn’t particularly concerned about losing bristles). Results follow:

 

See? Dark sorcery. So I’m pretty much sold 🙂 Obviously I’ll still use this one as a basting brush for PVA, but I think by using this stuff regularly on my good brushes I’ll be delaying them turning into basing brushes 🙂

Anyhow, that’s this week’s discovery…

 

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